Kenneth Anderson, a law professor at Washington College of Law, American University, Washington DC, and a member of the Hoover Task Force on National Security and Law, blogs on topics related to international laws of war, international law, related human rights topics, international NGOs, and the theory of the just war. (Mostly inactive these days, everything here is first draft and subject to changing my mind.)

Thursday, November 22, 2007

I tend toward seasonal slumps during winter, so this year I took my psychiatrist brother's advice and got a light box - Day Light, from Uplift Technologies, which I bought through Amazon. Since it is sunny and 72 degrees out today on Thanksgiving, I'm not so sure I need it, but I have been faithfully using it each morning. Will it help? I'm sure I would also feel much better in the winter if I exercised twice as much. But heck, I'll take placebo effects as well as real ones. And in any case, on low power it is a fine desk working light. It sits on stilts directly over my computer monitor and shines down beneficently upon me. It wasn't cheap, at $179, but I'm willing to give it a shot.